B/Fwd fm Part 1&nbsp;&nbsp; Last week the United Nations Secretary-General Ant&oacute;nio Guterres said in a video message that since restrictions were imposed by countries around the world to contain the coronavirus, women and girls were increasingly facing violence &ldquo;where they should be safest: in their own homes&rdquo;.
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Experts concerned about sleeper infectionsthat could result in devastating &lsquo;storm&rsquo;
SHAUN SMILLIE AND BONGANI HANS
AS SOUTH Africans prepare for another three weeks under lockdown, the reality is that restrictions to fight the coronavirus could be in place for longer as the country waits for th...
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NICOTINE craving is biting hard across the country, as smokers and criminals are desperately doing what they can to feed a habit that is not going away.
Even before the lockdown, research had shown that South Africa&rsquo;s taste for illegal cigarettes was growing at an alarming rate &ndash; so much so that by 2017, one out of every three ci...
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B/Fwd fm part 1&nbsp;&nbsp; &ldquo;We will be finalising this model with our Shadow Cabinet tomorrow, following which we will submit it to the president for consideration. There is no binary choice between a loss of life to coronavirus and a loss of life to the poverty which faces hundreds of thousands of South Africans who may no longer...
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A GROUP of lawyers, including senior counsels, have been reported to the Legal Practice Council after they are said to have breached the national lockdown regulations by travelling to the Mpumalanga High Court, without valid permits.
The lawyers were apparently involved in a court battle between the JS Moroka Local Munic...
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Union claims staff are working without protective equipment
NURSING union Denosa has given the health minister until tomorrow to address the Covid-19 crisis at St Augustine&rsquo;s Hospital in Durban, or it will call on its members to down tools.
The ultimatum comes less that 24 hours after 66 people, 47 of who...
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The DA alleges that the Covid-19 pandemic was used to rush through the procurement process in this particular tender process.
Following a statement issued by Gauteng MEC for education and youth development denying any wrongdoing or involvement in the <a href="https://citizen.co.za/phakaaathi/south-africa-soccer-phakaaathi-phakaaathi...
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Experts say the pandemic has wreaked havoc
COVID-19 has thrown a wrench into all business predictions and all 2020 plans. Anything that any business wanted to do this year, or probably even had planned for 2021, will have to be changed, or require a completely new approach.
That is the view of the founder and c...
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A BRIDE, groom, their entourage and all their wedding guests were arrested for allegedly organising and taking part in a wedding despite government regulations banning large gatherings due to the outbreak of the coronavirus.
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MASS evacuation plans are at an advanced stage to possibly move tens of thousands of people across four provinces in South Africa.
Entire townships in the Western Cape, Gauteng, the Eastern Cape and Kwazulunatal are to be moved to safe zones in a bid to halt the spread of the coronavirus.
It is a plan to de-congest extremely dense in...
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EFF calls donations sophisticated loan shark schemes to cripple SMMEs
A ROW has erupted over some of the Covid-19 funds donated to help small businesses survive the crippling coronavirus crisis that threatens to sink them.
The EFF has expressed disgust at what it has referred to as the opportunism of South Afri...
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